Chair
Dr. Kajornsak Faungnawakij
                                
Email: Kajornsak@nanotec.or.th
                                
                              
Co-chair
Assist. Prof. Sareeya Bureekaew
                                
Email: sareeya.b@vistec.ac.th
                                
                              
Scope
This session will bring together scientists and engineers from academia, industry, and government laboratories, to share and discuss on progresses and challenges of nanotechnology for catalysis and industrial applications.
The topics include but are not limited to:
- Nanocatalysis and nanochemistry
 - Industrial catalysis
 - Environmental catalysis
 - Catalysis for energy
 - Catalysis in oleochemicals
 - Catalysis in oil and gas
 - Catalytic biomass conversion
 - Catalysis in fine chemicals
 - Catalysis for carbon capture and utilization (CCU)
 - Electrocatalysis and Photocatalysis
 - Organometallic catalysis
 - Computational catalysis
 - Reaction mechanisms
 - Catalyst deactivation
 
Keynote Speakers
Session 8: Nanotechnology for Catalysis and Industrial Applications
                      
                    Prof. George Shimizu
University of Calgary, Canada
De-risking a Metal-Organic Framework for Practical Carbon Capture
                      
                    Prof. Deanna M. D’Alessandro
The University of Sydney, Australia
Harnessing Electroactivity in Metal-Organic Frameworks: Fundamentals to Applications
Invited Speakers
Session 8: Nanotechnology for Catalysis and Industrial Applications
                      
                    Asst. Prof. Sareeya Bureekaew
School of Energy Science & Engineering, Vidyasirimedhi Institute of Science and Technology, Thailand
Title: Co-based metal-organic frameworks for photocatalytic hydrogen production
                      
                    Dr. Tomohiro Fukushima
Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University, Japan
                      
                    Asst. Prof. Atthapon Srifa
Faculty of Engineering, Mahidol University, Thailand
Utilizing the Heterogeneous Catalysts for Conversion of Oil-based Feedstocks and Platform Chemicals to Biofuel and Biochemicals in Biorefinery Applications
                      
                    Assoc. Prof. Valerio D’Elia
School of Material Science & Engineering, Vidyasirimedhi Institute of Science and Technology, Thailand
Recent progresses in the development of realistic catalysts and catalytic methodologies for CO2 conversion to cyclic carbonates
                      
                    Assoc. Prof. Preeyanuch Sangtrirutnugul
Faculty of Science, Mahidol University, Thailand
Triazole-containing catalysts for alcohol oxidation and CO2 conversion
                      
                    Dr. Pongkarn Chakthranont
National Nanotechnology Center (NANOTEC), NSTDA
Designing microenvironment for electrochemical CO2 reduction and biomass oxidation